Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adj -er] [conj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 2 | And later she had found that his body , scarred as it was , was better than the one which she had imagined for him , as a living and breathing man was better than a marble statue or painting , and her vision had lacked life . |
| 3 | In all seven broad industry categories monitored by TI , the level of failures was higher than a year previously . |
| 4 | His voice was softer than a goose 's neck , almost inaudible , and he kept his eyes turned away . |
| 5 | It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower , about life in the old flower , about the need to explore , about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge . |
| 6 | My stomach was tighter than a baby 's fist |
| 7 | The Madness place in history was safer than a bet on a six-legged greyhound , so why did the once-magnificent seven and now decidedly muddled seven decide to blow their credibility and slop into the comeback trail ? |
| 8 | The Golden Hind was smaller and a lot more cheerful than the Lord Howe , a busy little place with an obvious hard core of regulars wedged into their favourite corners . |
| 9 | The man had white bone things above his eyes and under the mouth so that his face was longer than a face should be . |
| 10 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |